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Let's keep this thread going and share some trivia.

I learnt yesterday that the shortest war in history was the UK-Zanzibar war which lasted 38 minutes.

And HP was probably the first company in US to introduce profit sharing:

http://www.thocp.net/companies/hewlett_packard/hp_company.htm

[QUOTE] 1940

Moves from garage to rented building at Page Mill Road and El Camino Real in Palo Alto.

Company pays its first bonus to employees, a $5 Christmas bonus. This later becomes a production bonus and later becomes the companywide profit-sharing plan.

Net Revenue: $34,000; Employees: 3; Products: 8.

The largest empire ever built in terms of population it controlled was the British empire and in terms of territory covered it was the Mongol empire under Genghis Khan.

Most underdeveloped countries have better GINI index ( measure of income inequality distribution) than the developed ones. I guess the poor countries have not much to distribute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2014_Gini_Index_World_Map,_income_inequality_distribution_by_country_per_World_Bank.svg

vapasi1;623115Most underdeveloped countries have better GINI index ( measure of income inequality distribution) than the developed ones. I guess the poor countries have not much to distribute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2014_Gini_Index_World_Map,_income_inequality_distribution_by_country_per_World_Bank.svg

Yes, most of the developed countries have democracies and pro capitalist. They seem to be a necessary but not sufficient condition for some wealth to be created.

On a side note, a famous quote from Winston Churchill - ?Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. Socialism is the equal distribution of poverty.?

ILuvHyd;623244On a side note, a famous quote from Winston Churchill - “Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. Socialism is the equal distribution of poverty.”

I heard Dr. Carson quote Margaret Thatcher on CNN PTH with Anderson - "Socialism is great until you run out of others' money".

US President John Tyler had his last kid when he was 70 and one of his kids had kids at the age of 71:))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler#Family_and_personal_life

[QUOTE]As of December 2015, Tyler has two living grandsons through his son Lyon Gardiner Tyler; he is the earliest former president with living grandchildren.[SUP][130][/SUP] Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr. was born in 1924, and Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928; Lyon Tyler Jr. resides in Franklin, Tennessee, and Harrison Tyler maintains the family home

Virginia is said to be the Mother of US Presidents - has given more Presidents than other states.


PS: Please feel free to correct any info I post here. I am just doing TP posting info I get to know.

vapasi1;625293Virginia is said to be the Mother of US Presidents - has given more Presidents than other states.


PS: Please feel free to correct any info I post here. I am just doing TP posting info I get to know.

You are right. Virginia (state) is called the mother of all presidents as eight presidents were born in VA - George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Tyler, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson.

More here:
http://www.virginia.org/presidents/